Ephemeral cinema spaces : stories of reinvention, resistance and community / Maria Vélez-Serna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vélez-Serna, Maria, author.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture theaters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]

Summary:

With changing technologies and social habits, the communal cinema experience would seem to be a legacy from another era. However, the last decade has seen a surge in interest for screening films in other, temporary public settings. This desire to turn pubs, galleries, parks, and even boats, into temporary cinema spaces is moved not only by a love for movies, but also a search for ways of being and working together. This book documents current practices of pop-up and site-specific cinema exhibition in the UK (with a focus on Scotland), tracing their links with historical forms of non-theatrical exhibition such as public hall cinema and fairground bioscopes. Through archival research, observation and interviews, the project asks how exhibitors create ephemeral social spaces, and how the combination of film and venue reinvents cinema as device and as social practice.

Contents:

Unstable constellations : recognizing cinema out of place

Relocations : mapping the non-theatrical field in Scotland

A desire for the civic : community cinemas and volunteer work

Film clubs and subcultural cinephile spaces

On the ground : participatory screenings in everyday spaces

Crafting the extraordinary : site-specificity and liveness

Against enclosure : DIY exhibition as prefigurative action.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-223) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-69488-8

90-485-6161-2

90-485-3782-7

9781003694885

OCLC:

1176192870